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Sat 04 October |
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Telepathe, Jenny & The Deadites |
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Upstairs At Whelans
- Dublin |
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Gigs |
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Skinny Wolves Presents, in association with the POD:
TELEPATHE
(USA, Social Registry/Merok)
w/ JENNY & The DEADITES
+ DJs
+ more tbc
Saturday 4th October
Whelans (Upstairs), Wexford Street, Dublin
Doors 8pm - 2.30am // ADM 14e
Tickets available from Wav Box Office and Tickets.ie
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TELEPATHE
http://www.myspace.com/telepathe
Melissa Livaudis and Busy Gangnes were part of First Nation and
Bloodlines respectively. Telepathe started as a side project for these
groups. With its first line up of rotating members, the band’s debut
release, the ‘Farewell Forest’ EP is a dense as the current
incarnation, but was made by a full band in the expected set up. Their
Sinister Militia’ 12 inch, recorded with the current line up (including
semi-permanent guitar hired gun Ryan Lucero) is the bridge to how they
sound now: synthetic ambience without full-blown machine beat. But it
wasn’t until recently that they hate jamming and gave it up for the
hectic commotion of technology.
‘Chrome’s On It’ a song that splashes with pitch-shifted Mannie Fresh
beat syncopation, low tones and stuttered snare is their most
immediately striking song, but only because it’s the least subtle.
Livaudis says she was listening to an old Cash Money instrumentals CD
the week before they made it. Their music has more in common with the
do-it-yourselfness of self taught beatmaker Soulja Boy than former
tourmates !!!. But were they to reply solely on their hip-hop
influence, they’d be a lot limper. Their ‘Crimes and Killings’ may
begin simply with sub-bass, but it keeps going with digitized
electronic wind and the half spoken, half sung call ‘Let’s go make out
in the snow,I’ll fuck you up you ought to know.’ The seven minute song
is a musical triptych with distinct movements threaded togther with
backwards hi-hat hitting and snare strokes. Gangnes and Livaudis’
voices are ever present throughout, seamlessly dubbed together, and
that unified call is at once plainly lush and and undeniably creepy.
There’s so much in so many genres happening at once that it feels like
an experiment in pastiche and overload.
Their woman-meets-machine mishmash is present throughout their
forthcoming Dave Sitek-produced album ‘Dance Mother’. “We’re making a
specific lifestyle choice which I feel is political, says Gangnes
towards the end of one of our conversations. And although she follows
that up by saying “I didn’t know what I was going to say as I said
that,” its vital that they even think about the tangled implications of
being two women in a band backed by drum machines. “People will be like
‘Will you please sing on my beat’ and its like, Dude, we make our own
beats,’” says Livaudis. “There’s no smoke and mirrors!’ she says.
“Anyone can do this.” And Telepathe certainly did. So while maybe it
was just a matter of tatse and convenience that Livaudis put down their
instruments in favor of the LCD glare of a computer screen, it also
made for a big boom and it made a better band.
Drowned in Sound: Telepathe interview
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2796053
NME: Telepathe makes the US cool again.
http://www.intelligentmedia.com/view...e_770_12p.html
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JENNY & The DEADITES
http://www.myspace.com/jennyandthedeadite
Jenny and the Deadites formed from the ashes and effluent of various
projects, but quickly became an end in itself…rhymes and non rhymes
over heavy electronics…words vicious and twisted over slabs of boom and
echo…as meaningful and meaningless as throwing a cat onto a
bonfire…pretty and macabre, like a necklace of human teeth… A little
bit of noise, a little bit of light and a whole lot of death…
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Not a Sam Raimi tribute band, although their skewed take on hip-hop is
almost as twisted as one of his early films. MC Jenny Brannigan
declaims her dark, brooding poetry over beats laptopped up by Ian
McDonnell and Dara Smith, combining into a minimalist hip-hop that
might not exactly cheer you up, but will at least make you nod your
head as it fucks with it.
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